Road repairs save money

4:09 AM,
Apr. 24, 2013

Butch Eley

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Butch Eley

Our country's transportation infrastructure, the system on which our economy is dependent to move people and products, is broken.

Like an automobile once new and high performing that's now old, tired and sputtering due to poor maintenance, many of our roads and bridges are in decline. The roadway system is badly in need of repair and much of it rapidly approaching the end of a viable life cycle.

America has more than 4 million miles of roadway, of which Tennessee counts 93,251 miles of public roads. ...